Nepal Lipi
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Nepal Lipi is a historic Brahmic script traditionally used by the Newar people of Nepal to write the Nepal Bhasa language and several other regional languages.
Statements (46)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf | writing system ⓘ |
| alsoKnownAs |
Newa script
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Newar script NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| associatedWith |
Newar Buddhism
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Newar Hinduism NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| culturalSignificance | symbol of Newar identity ⓘ |
| derivedFrom | Gupta script NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| developedFrom | Gupta script NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| hasConsonantInventory | Brahmic-style consonant set ⓘ |
| hasUnicodeBlock | Newa NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| hasVariant |
Bhinaymol script
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Bhujimol script NERFINISHED ⓘ Golmol script NERFINISHED ⓘ Kutakshar script NERFINISHED ⓘ Litumol script NERFINISHED ⓘ Prachalit script NERFINISHED ⓘ Ranjana script NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| hasVowelNotation | inherent vowel with diacritics ⓘ |
| historicalUsage |
Buddhist texts
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Hindu texts ⓘ inscriptions ⓘ manuscripts ⓘ religious texts ⓘ |
| ISO15924Code | Newa NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| primaryLanguage | Nepal Bhasa (Newar language) NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| relatedTo |
Devanagari
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ⓘ
Tibetan script NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| revivalMovement | Newar cultural revival in 20th and 21st centuries ⓘ |
| scriptFamily | Brahmic ⓘ |
| scriptReform | modern standardized Newa orthography ⓘ |
| subclassOf | Brahmic script ⓘ |
| timePeriodOfProminence |
Malla period
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medieval Nepal ⓘ |
| UnicodeStandard | Unicode 9.0 NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| usedBy | Newar people NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| usedFor |
Maithili
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Nepal Bhasa NERFINISHED ⓘ Sanskrit NERFINISHED ⓘ colophons of palm-leaf manuscripts ⓘ official documents in historical Nepal ⓘ other regional languages of Nepal ⓘ stone inscriptions in Kathmandu Valley ⓘ |
| usedIn |
Kathmandu Valley
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Nepal NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| writingDirection | left-to-right ⓘ |
| writingSystemType | alphasyllabary ⓘ |
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